2013 3rd quarter newsletter
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Club Meetings
July 28th
2nd Summer Meeting at
Jim and Judy Stockes
Please RSVP
August 25th
3rd
Summer Meeting at
Hines Drive Cruise
Please RSVP
Sepember 29th
Membership Meeting at
Gardner Westcott 5PM
Club Meetings are at 5 PM
Board Meetings are held at
7 PM the prior Monday to
the Club Meeting
(Except in the Summer)
www.motorstatestreetrods.org
Presidents ReportBy Bob Nash
Summers here! If you look at the MSSR activities calendar youll find some interesting events Im sure
youll also find you cant do it all, even though youd like to. For me, fitting the car activities in between
family activities and home chores takes some coordination. When the weather guessers as Don calls
them, upstage my plans, I dont like it. We lost a local cruise night to a premature weather cancellation
and yet the night turned out nice. Another plan to go to the races was aborted due to the weather
guessers only to have the night turn out nice. Do you find yourself in the same boat?
Thanks to those that took in Salem Flag Day to support Gardner-Westcott. Its a short parade, so not too
stressful on the cars or drivers. The day breaks up pretty early also. If you missed it, try it next year.
Back to Bricks (B2B) Promo Tour attended by the Nashs, Stockes and Wymans was a really nice cruise
across mid Michigan. Read about it in this issue. Think Hot Rod Power Tour on a lesser more personal
scale and youll have a pretty good idea of what its like.
To succeed in life you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone! Reba McIntire
Grandmother to Grandson: Are you in the top half of your class? Grandson: No, Im one of the students
who make the top half possible.
SEE YOU ON THE STREET OR AT ONE OF THE SUMMER MEETINGS
Bob
Inside thisEdition
Long Time Members 2
Speed Freaks 3
Billetproof Florida 5
Old is When 6
Billetproof Michiganl 7
Roush Open House 8
Cruise Nights 9
Back to Bricks Tour 10
Salem Flag Day 11
Bearing Burners 12
Swap Meet 13
Birthdays 13
Anniversarys 13
Ramblings 14
Coming Events 14
Officers 15
Featured Ride 15
Calendar of Events 16
Card CornerGet Well, Sympathy and Thank You Cards have been sent to the following
Get Well
Mary Berger --female surgery
Bob Steinhouse-- back surgery
Also please keep Jan Quills daughter Dawn in your prayers for a speedy recovery from a brain aneurysm.She is now home from the hospital working on her recovery. Get Well Dawn.
Please, either call me (517) 223-4882 or email at [email protected] if you know of someone we
need to send a card to.
July September 2013
MSSR News Briefs
Pete Deptula, Congratulations
Congratulation goes out to Pete Deptula on his
recent retirement for the everyday work life and
entering his new everyday work life. Only change
is the money, have fun and enjoy life Pete, you
deserve it.
Cruise Nights
Motor State has put these dates and location on th
calendar for a do not miss fun time with MSSR
Members. Please Plan on attending.July 24 MSSR Cruise Night to South Lyon
August 7 MSSR Cruise Event to the Gilmore Museu
in Hickory Corners MI
August 23 MSSR Cruise Night to Multi Lakes
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Long Time Members, Dwight and Millie Fackender
Winter Garage Crawls
Years and Years Ago, a Long Long Time
Ago, Way Way Back When, Before there
Was Even Dirt, In the Forgotten Past, Even
Before There Was Motor State Street Rods,
There were creatures out there that took Old
Cars and made their parents wonder, Whatthe !$#& did we raise. Fortunately for us,
some of these slightly right of center
individuals did us a favor and established
Motor State Street Rods and helped form it
to what we have today.
Just think, people like Dwight Fackender
along with his lovely companion; Millie (who
by the way must be an angel for putting up
with Dwight for all these years) helped shape
the direction of this great club. Dwight and
Millie were a part of this radical group who
did not like the direction of the former cluband broke away from them and founded
MSSR.
Dwight and Millie were among the first who
started Motor State in 1976. It all began in
Everett Rezendes basement with a simple
sign up. Dwight and Millie dedication to the
club is evident when you look at their service
record.
Dwight served as a Director from 1976
through 1980 and then moved to President
in 1981 and 1982, which is 7 straight years
of service to the club. Not to be outdone,Millie served as Director in 1980 and 1982
and Recording Secretary in 1981, another 3
years of dedication bringing the total to 10
years of club service.
Dwight also organized the club trip to
Memphis in 1980 and remember, travel in a
Hot Rod was not something everyone looked
forward to in those days. This trip alone took
a week of travel .
Most of the guys smile when Womens World
is mentioned or in some cases check the
wallet and you can blame Millie for most ofthe problem since she ran Womens World at
Nats North when it was in Detroit at the
Fairgrounds. Given that Millie is not a
shopper this is amazing, as a matter of fact
the best the ladies ever got her to shop
successfully for was a cheap on sale blouse
whereby the ladies officially gave her a
graduation to their world. Millie also started
the face painting at the games at Nats North,
a tradition still being done.
While we are giving away the real deal on
Dwight and Millie, it is a known fact that
they love CHEAP red wine and while Millie
will turn in early, Dwight is the absolute last
one to leave the party. In the past they
particularly enjoyed the Motor State Street
Rods Camping parties and they hostedmany of the summer meetings at their
home in Rockwood. These days the two
call Florida and Omstead their homes
where Dwight can still do some riding on
his Harley through the Michigans
countryside. One year, Millie took all the
ladies aside to teach them how to make
Cabbage Patch Dolls, most ended up
looking more like Chuckie and scared hell
out of any kids that were unlucky enough
to get one.
The Fackenders have also been membersof Motor City Modified Auto Club and the
Michigan Hot Rod Association since 1953
(I told you it was a long long time ago).
Dwight was part of the Michigan Hot Rod
Association and worked on the Rod Repair
Shop at events that a lot of us have used
over time.
Dwight is a little unusual in that he still has
the car that built in 1977, yes the 1935
Ford Coupe and he is proud to say he did
it mostly himself. It has been in Autorama
three times and driven to events all over
this county wearing out the original 350
engine replacing it 11 years ago. The car
has a 350 engine with a Turbo 350
transmission, power brakes, and A/C for
Millie to enjoy. The paint on the car is the
original 1977 paint Dwight put on the car
and he would do it again if the need arises.
For 20 years, this car has passed the
NSRA Safety 23 which Dwight is most
proud of.
One thing for certain, Dwight and Millie are
household words in the Motor World, if you
ever were at an event, swap meet or
cruise night then Dwight knows you, he
knows everybody in the car life and it is
nice to know Dwight too.
While Dwight has his original car, he is
missing his travel costume that he is mos
proud of, his Superman Suit that
consisted of a towel and a Speedobathing suit that he proudly wore at trave
events much to the _________ (fill in the
blank) of the ladies present. Rumor has
that the Speedo resides on the bed post
of one of our single lady members, we w
not mention names but it would be nice if
Dwight had his original Speedo back to
go with his original hot rod.
So above all, a shout out is due Dwight
and Millie for getting us on the road to
where we are and sticking with us on this
journey, we could not be what we are
today without your help and guidance
over the years.
Thank You, keep being who you are, as
long as you are around we will have Fu
with Friends
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MSSR Speed Freaks, Doing Their Thing in 2013By Rich Pickens
Last year several members experienced the
Ohio Mile in Wilmington Ohio at an airpark
that was originally a DHL facility. Two of our
MSSR members achieved some very fast
times in their categories. Al Piggott holds his
class record for propane powered cars andBob Carter ran at better than 180 in his
roadster. Well the pair are up and at it again
for 2013 and it looks like the bug has them
hooked because both spent this last winter
for an all out attempt to go faster. Bob,
completely reset with a new motor which he
hopes will be the answer to 200 plus. Al
Piggott decided he has gone as fast as the
Dart would go and built a new car for an
attempt at 200 plus himself. The foundation
of his car is a NSCAR racer that came out of
the Kieslowski family garage as in Brad of
NSCAR fame. Al has been friends with
Brads uncle for some time and got them
interested in having fun going in a straight
line really fast as they ran Bonneville last
year. Al spent the winter getting the former
circle track racer ready for the Ohio Mile.
With all the work done, it was now time to
head on down to Ohio and see if their efforts
were worth it. But hold on, a bad back and
under doctor orders not to get in the roadster;
Bob Carter had to put his first attempt of
2013 on hold. Bob and Judy made the trip
anyway, just to watch the action, help out Al
in his attempts and spend a day as a
volunteer for the East Coast Timing
Association assisting the spectators to
park and watch the action. And
spectators they had, the parking was
wall to wall and many people from Ohioand other states showed up to watch
the action as you can get up close and
personal with the cars in the staging
lanes to see what old time back garage
building can come up with. Some of the
spectators brought along some
interesting street rods and they added
to the eye candy for the day.
Friday was spent getting the cars
through tech inspection. Each car is
reviewed by a team of the ECTA for
every inch of maximum safety. Some
cars go through several times to get
passed and after they make changes.
Al Piggott only took one attempt to get
through inspection with just some minor
suggestion on changes. Signed off and
now ready to go, the balance of Friday was
spent getting the car ready and a very slow
pass down the track just to make sure all
the markers and the cars were ready for
the Saturday show.
Al was not use to the prep it takes to get
this monster ready and the crew worked a
couple of hours early on Saturday morning
getting the oil warm and the engine primed
to fire. Once fired, it was off the starting
line to wait the turn for a pass. Because
this is a new car to the Ohio Mile, you mus
make a 150 mile per hour pass and then a
175 mile per hour pass before getting sign
off and permission to go over 200 which
the car is certainly capable of. The first
pass resulted in a 133 mph run. Partners
in crime, the Kieslowski brothers Ron andBob made their first pass at 200 mph and
when Ron returned to the trailer, his voice
was a few octaves higher since he did not
see the finish line and then failed to pull
the chute resulting in a longer than wanted
stop before he went off the end. Since the
wind was directly coming north this was a
problem since the finish line flags were no
totally visible.
Cars were checked and put back in line for
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The second Ohio Mile seen success from allour driver owners. Al Piggott joined the 200MPH Club with a run of 202 setting a newclass record.
Al was also promoting our hobby to theyoungsters that weekend, as he broughtalong his granddaughter Payton Richardsonand his Propane Powered Dart to see if shecould handle the mile. Like a pro shepowered the car down on its first run to a 102MPH mark even though the car cut off close
to the finish line due to a issue with one of thepropane tanks. She marched to a 104 on hersecond run and on Sunday did one more runat 102. I think Al has got a partner nowbecause Payton was last seen taking theNASCAR to the line and trying to get a run init before Al had a chance to get there. GoodJob Payton.
Bob Carter aided by Judy Carter was alsoat the meet with a brand new motor in theroadster. Bob who is currently scheduledfor some further back surgery got thedoctors ok to make a few runs thisweekend. With sever back pain, Bob gotthe car down the mile 5 times with a bestof 178 and got in the record books
Bob Carter and Payton Richardson athe line ready to go
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the second attempt and this time the
Keselowski brothers ran an impressive 217
which is just 3 mph short of what others in
the field are running in the class.
On Als run he did another 130 mph on his
attempt to run the qualifying 150 and when
he returned to the trailer there was some
head scratching because he had plenty of
horsepower left and could not figure out
why he was short in the run.
Since these cars do not have a
speedometer you depend entirely on the
tachometer to determine the speed and the
rpm reading is used to determine the speed
calculations and on a review it was found
that a wrong rear end ratio was used which
made both runs come up short in the 150
attempt. Why is this important, well the
ECTA requires a 150 run and then a 175
run before a 200 attempt is allowed. To go
over or under requires a redo so in both
cases the 130 were well short even though
the car is capable. Since the math test wasa failure, the next attempt would be on
Sunday morning.
On Sunday we arrived to a wet track since
it rained during the night but by 10 AM the
runs were a go and as Al got in line for his
attempt, the sky opened up again and it
rained for some time causing all the racers
to start packing up and heading home. The
attempts will just have to wait till June for
the Second Ohio Mile in 2013.
Ohio Mile 2By Rich Pickens
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OCALA, FLORIDA, MARCH 23, 2013
The date is March 1, 2013 and Wayne
Penwarden, former MSSR member
extraordinaire, is lurking about his home in
Spring Hill, Florida. Suddenly, the phone
rings:
Hey Wayne, this is Jim Stocke back in the
sunny south for the month of March.
Cool Jim. Have you been looking forward
to some car events during your stay?
Absolutely, unequivocally and irrevocably I
am ready!
Wow! Okay. There is the Dade City Cruise
Saturday and several local cruises
including the one at Hardees on Highway
19. Aha, but, I saved the best for last:
Billetproof at Don Garlits place in Ocala on
the 23rd
.
Lets plan on going and I will contact GaryLazette and Jim Sabo too.
Okay. See you soon.
Yea, go ahead and Smile, it only sunny
and 70 in Florida, Michigan not so much
Time passes. and the date is now March
23, 2013. Wayne, Jim, Jim and Gary pile
into Jims car for the short trek to Garlits
place.
Hey, there it is. I can see it from I75! Jim
exclaims (Which Jim you ask? See if you
can tell.) I bet there are a million cars there.
Woopee! What a sight for car deprived
eyes!
Okay, okay, cool it Jim. Youre old you
know and we dont want your blood
pressure up too high. Dont want a heart
attack here.
Motor State Shirt in Sunny Florida
We all scramble out of the car after parkingin the handicap lot (How come handicap?
Well, seems the attendant asked if we had
a handicap tag and Jim said yes but, it was
his wifes. Okay the attendant says; park
right over there at the entrance. Who are
we to argue?). Free entry? Oh boy. So we
enter the nirvana of car enthusiasts.
Big Show
Ah, we stroll around the multiple rows of
reverse snobbery cars. Some really
creative and cool stuff out here. How abou
that nifty 59 Cadillac flanked by two
models dressed as 40s pinup girls no no
bathing suits but, period dresses and
makeup.
Just like the 50s, not
How often do you see eight yes eight
carburetors on an engine? Gobs and gobs
of flatheads with a few being V12s. Thelargest car butt ever is that Dodge busine
coupe we saw with its huge rear end. It
was a gibungous butt. Don McKinnon
would be envious. Okay, moving on here
we came across one guy who made his
views concerning trailer queens abundant
clear by sticking a label on his fuel manifo
block: F--- Trailer Queens. I understood
his point.
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Billetproof Florida at the Don Garlits Drag Racing MuseumBy Jim Stocke
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At this show, you get a double wowie of
things to see. The Garlits museums are a
must. Don has three buildings: Two have
the worlds greatest collection of
dragsters on the planet and one has a
knockout collection of mostly restoredcars with several customs and streetrods
too.
Big likes old cars too
And he likes a few hundred Dragsters
Ah, Jim Sabo became a teacher again.
He
educated Jim Stocke on the fine points of
Cabriolets, Phaetons and Convertibles.
Jim Sabo earned his keep. Wayne also
became an educator. Do you know the
fine points of the differences between 49
vs 50 Fords?
After walking around from about 10 in the
morning till about 4 in the afternoon, us
old guys were certainly feeling their aches
and pains, so time to call it quits and tool
back to Jim Stockes rental house for an
after show party. Audry, Sheila and Judy
(Sandy was out of town.) whipped up
some great eats for all of us. The
legendary MSSR eating skills are nowgetting back in shape for the upcoming
season.
The Man Himself, Big Daddy
This was one fun day. Billetproof
streetrods, multitudinous historical
dragsters, tons and tons of old restored
cars, race cars, an engine collection to die
for, great food and drink but, best of all,
the wonderful camaraderie we all
experienced.
The Maize and Blue in Florida
Old is When
'OLD' IS WHEN...
Your sweetie says, 'Let's go upstairs
And make love,' and you answer, 'Pick
one; I can't do both!'
'OLD' IS WHEN...
Your friends compliment you on your
new alligator shoes and you're
barefoot.
'OLD' IS WHEN...
Going bra-less pulls all the wrinkles
out of your face.
'OLD' IS WHEN....
You don't care where your spouse
goes, just as long as you don't have togo along.
'OLD' IS WHEN...
You are cautioned to slow down by the
doctor instead of by the police.
'OLD' IS WHEN..
'Getting a little action' means you don'
need to take any fiber today.
'OLD' IS WHEN...
'Getting lucky' means you find your ca
in the parking lot.
'OLD' IS WHEN...
An 'all nighter' means not getting up to
use the bathroom.
AND
'OLD' IS WHEN...
You are not sure if these are facts or
jokes?
Cool Picture - Danny &
Karen in the FOG
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BilletProof Michigan & Detroit Dragway ReunionBy Rich Pickens
Teaming up together to provide not only eye
candy but also some noise and action on
the drag strip, Billetproof which has
traditionally been held at Riverside Park in
Ypsilanti moved location to the Milan
Dragway where the Detroit DragwayReunion has become a yearly event. For a
mere $20 you could enter with your not so
fancy rod and take a trip down the drag
strip. That was the plan, however, as you all
know the weather in Michigan has not been
kind to us this year and it was only in May
did the summer start to arrive. After finally
putting a week of nice temps together,
someone upstairs did not want us to get use
to the 70s and sent along a day of 50s with
some wind and really turned us back into
bundled up creatures like we lived in Alaska.
The car show crowd still showed up and the
turnout was decent in count. Rules of no
billet on a car seemed to be relaxed this
year as several nice street rods where on
the grounds. A lot of customs filled out the
field as well as the normal amount of rat
rods. You know most of these cars are
driven and to know they survived the trip
down Plank Road from the Milan exit to the
Drag Strip was a feat the deserves an
award, this is one messed up Michigan
Road.
On the other side of the drag strip, the
Detroit Dragway Reunion assembled a
large field of cars for the day of racing fun.
One class had over 70 entries alone and
the old time gassers showed up in force
and a large field of early funny cars and
front engine dragsters was also on hand
for the show.
Well, if you survived the cold weather,
you enjoyed a really nice event, full of
activities, nitro, tire smoke and cool rides
plus drag race cars from the past as wel
as some very old drivers. And oh yes, if
you like rockabilly, they had that too. If
they do this in 2014, lets hope for some
nice weather.
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You can be sure of a good time and seeing
a lot of eye candy at the Roush Open
House events that happen three times this
year. The June open house may be the
best of all since Jack Roush arranges tohave his drivers on the property to sign
autographs for those so choosing. The
event is advertised to start at 5 PM but like
most cruise nights if you get there at that
time you may not be sure of a parking
place since the lot and surrounding
property fills quickly and this day was not
exception. I arrived to see the normal
Mustang armada lining both sides
of the street and wondered why it was so
full already but got lucky when directed to
a primo spot at the end of the lot where I
did not have to climb a curb to get there.
On the way down the street, I spotted Jack
and Shirley Millers Mustang convertible inspot number one.
After parking I soon found the reason why
the event was so full, there was around 25
Super Birds filling the parking area
normally taken by nothing but Ford Power.
Super Birds from Ohio, Illinois, North
Carolina and other places were proudly on
display. All types and conditions from fully
restored to barn fresh and a few in their
original race trim, one of the late country
western singing racing stars, Marty
Robbins required sun glasses to viewed.
Not to be outdone, Ford was well
represented by several Talledaga Torinos
which brought back a great car war era in
NASCAR.
When you went inside you were treated to
a great display of Jack Roush cars that is
you could see them due to the lines of
people lined up to get a autograph from
Carl Edwards, Greg Biffle on other wheel
men under contact at Roush Fenway
Racing. The line went on forever.
Back outside, there was an engine build
contest as well as a few old gassers and
funny cars to view.
Put the next Open House on your calenda
for a great time.
Roush Open House, June 2013By Rich Pickens
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MSSR Cruise Nights
Redford VFWWith a nice 67 degree day with the sun
shining strong, the Motor State Street
Rods invaded the Redford VFW cruise
night and brought along 17 cars to help
them achieve a full house, so full in fact
that they had to cut off entry into the facility
by 5:15 since every spot was filled.
Member of MSSR came from Gregory,
Pinckney, Livonia, Westland, Taylor,
Dearborn, Garden City, Brownstown Twp,
Farmington Hills, Ann Arbor, Southfield,
Dearborn Heights, and Detroit.
A few members arrived early to secure
spaces for as many as possible and we got
almost all parked in the same area.
Members gathered in one area and the
conversations started along with food
brought back to our area obtained from the
VFW workers. We were also blessed to
have Claudia Williams bring some great
lemon and chocolate squares in
celebration of John Schumonts birthday.
John keep the exact year to himself butlets just say our senior club keeps getting
larger.
With everyone full of cruise night cuisine
was time to walk for a bit and check out
our fellow cruisers and look at whats new
since last year. You did not have to go
far to see a cool Plymouth Coupe in blacsuede or a model A coupe not seen
before.
One benefit MSSR has is our own NSRA
Safety Inspection Team of Bob and
JoAnn Nash who did several inspections
at this cruise.
Everyone appeared to have a good time
at this event to kick off our 2013 cruise
season and this event did not let us down
good food, good company and a lot of
cars to see.
Just a view of the front isle
Old Cars and Young at Heart People
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Back to the Bricks Lakeshore to Lakeshore Promotion Tour - June 7-12, 2013By Jim Stocke
What the heck is a Promo Tour? Okay,
you all know about Flints Back to the
Bricks show on the same day as
Woodward (Why the hell do they plan it on
that day anyway?). Well, the folks who run
the B2B show decided a few years ago that
it would be fun and would advertise the
show if they set up a several day road trip
around Michigan. And, thus, the Promo
Tour was born.
There were about 75 cars on this trip. Its
not a rigid schedule. That is, you can join
and leave at any point of the trip and you
are on your own between planned stops. It
runs from Friday, June 7 through
Wednesday, June 12. Bob and Joanne and
Jim and Judy decided to join the tour to
experience something a little different in thecar enthusiasts world.
Our first stop was Saturday in Hart located
on the western shore of Lower Michigan.
We arrived too late to join any tour
activities but not too late to savor broasted
chicken served at the famous Brown Bear
Bar in Pentwater, a short distance from
Hart. They serve the best broasted chicken
on the planet made even better after being
washed down with a pint of Blue Moon.
After spending the night at Stockes
Sandcastle on nearby Silver Lake, Sunday
morning we met the tour at the Oceana
County Airport for a great pancakebreakfast. Seems that the famous Oceana
Asparagus Festival was going on at the
same time, which swelled the attendance
to several hundred people. Enjoyable, and
you could walk off the food on the airport
apron to view several vintage aircraft that
had flown in for the event. But, it was cold,
windy and looked like rain at any second.
That stopped no one though. Us car folks
are tough.
We left the airport to travel to Ludington
where we parked in a bank lot next to a
short street blocked off for the local car
club. Nice area, friendly folks and lots of
classy street rods, muscle cars, classics
and other assorted cool cars. Even Elvis
was present. At 1 PM we moseyed onto
the roads to head to Cadillac where we
were treated to closed streets and local
cars to compliment our 75 cars on the tour.
Of the top 15 (There were 243 entries.)
trophies awarded, the B2B cars won 10 of
them! Says something about the quality of
the cars on the tour doesnt it? And, ta da,
guess what? Jim Stockes world famous
Stocke Mobile was one of them. Yea!
(Can I toot my own horn?) Okay, toot, toot.
Monday already? Wow time flies and all
that. On to West Branch in the cool, drizzly,
overcast weather, the home area for theMSSR northern contingent. But first, we
meet at McQuires Resort before taking off.
Six participants were interviewed in the
parking lot by a TV reporter for a local
Channel 5 station. Cool. Those six
included Jim and Judy but, alas, we never
saw ourselves on TV. The interviews were
fun though. After the TV excitement we
take off for the first of two stops: The
House of Moses Museum in Vogel Center
and the second in Prudenville for, yes!,
coffee and donuts. The museum was a
tribute to Kevin Moses, a motorcycleenthusiast who had died of cancer a few
years ago. The museum was tiny but very
interesting from the four door, dual four
barrel 56 Cadillac to the seven vintage
Harleys plus lots of memorabilia.
On to the donuts guys, Im hungry.
Prudenville was a charming little berg
dominated by Eddies bar. Man O Man,
were these good donuts. Rumor had it that
they bought 60 dozen for us! Thats 720
donuts for about 100 people. Duh, I
wonder if they intended to pass them out to
the town residents after we left.
All this activity was great fun and quite
interesting. On this type of trip you meet
many new people making many new
friends along the way. So far, we were
enjoying this trip immensely. It is great to
be among friendly people who share a
common interest.
Bob and Joanne and Jim and Judy get
back on the road to travel to West Branch
after gorfing down those fabulous donuts
and after considerable gum flapping with
all our new friends. It was a little hike to
West Branch the last part of which was on
I75. So, Bob and Jim exit the X-way only t
be greeted at the bottom of the ramp by a
police car with its light flashing away. Oh,
oh. Were we speeding? The cop, in civilia
clothes, comes over to announce that he to escort the tour into town and where
were the rest of the cars? At that moment,
about 10 more cars showed up and off we
went with sirens wailing and lights flashing
to Team Hodges, a car dealer just outside
of town. It was very cool to watch all the
traffic part ways and stop to let us go by.
What power we car people have. Ha!
We were warmly welcomed by the crew at
the dealership. They ran a very well
organized event going all out for us. This
was an interesting place: The left half of
the main building housed Ram, Chrysler,
Jeep and Dodge. The right half housedChevrolet. I bet there was considerable
negotiating with both manufacturers to pu
that one off. A free lunch was served
consisting of the ever present hot dogs
along with homemade potato salads, chip
and pop. Like I said, they treated us well.
After the requisite gum flapping, we drove
to our hotel for a brief rest before the
evening planned car show in the town
center.
Line up guys, lets get this tour moving.
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Salem Flag Day Celebration June 8, 2013By Jim Stocke
Ominous, gray skies greet us as we
meander up to the clubhouse in Salem at
10 AM to gather for the second annual
participation of MSSR in the Salem Flag
Day celebration. But those gray skies did
not deter us from joining the festivities. And,
as it turned out, the weather held eventhough all day it looked like it would rain
any minute.
Good club turnout 11 cars and about 16
club members showed up to pay tribute to
our countrys flag, to honor our veterans
and to thank the community of Salem and
the Gardner Westcott company for our
beautiful clubhouse in this quaint town. The
parade is the kickoff for the event and they
really put out a great effort to make it a
success. There were fire trucks, tractors, a
huge youth band with flag twirlers and, of
course, our contingent bolstered by several
local cool cars.
Maurice Alexander was the Grand
Marshall. I talked one on one with Maurice
who related his fascinating War II
experiences with me. He landed on Utah
beach during the Normandy invasion on
June 6, 1944 almost exactly 69 years
ago. He travelled through France going into
many cities along the way culminating in
the rescue of the 101st
Airborne Division,
which had been surrounded by the
Germans in the town of Bastogne. This
incident gained international attention
when, before General Patton arrived, the
commander of the 101s ,
General McAuliffe
responded to a very formal German
request for surrender with the answer,
Nuts. - America at its best! But, I digress
We were given bags of candy to toss to the
kids while we drove the parade through
town. It was great fun as the entire town
seemed to turn out for us making us feel
good about participating is their
celebration. Many families with lots of kids
scrambling to pick up the candy lined theroute. Salem, which looks tiny, looked huge
during this fun parade.
Afterwards, we had reserved parking
spaces along the street right in front of the
Veterans Park. The MC introduced Mauric
and many other dignitaries, the national
anthem was played and everyone hung
around jawing, gum flapping, laughing and
just plain enjoying themselves.
As club events go, this one is small and
short but what a great one. It left you with
that familiar warm fuzzy feeling all over. W
all were very glad and honored that we
were able to be a part of such a fine event.
B2B Continued from Prior Page
Again, a police escort into town. Wow, we
felt special. Every car was photographed
in front of the town mural painted on the
side of a building before we parked on the
main street for the show. Again, ta da, the
famous Stocke Mobile and, the famous
Nash Mobile received Just Because
awards. Jims 37 was chosen justbecause the judge like the Maize and
Blue color scheme and Bobs Nash was
chosen just because the judge liked
purple. Oh well, any award is an honor.
Bob and Jorayne Wyman, who live very
nearby, joined us on this leg of the tour
swelling MSSR participation to three cars.
We were a happy, compatible group who
enjoyed each others company. Isnt this
what its all about?
And now, exhausted, to sleep to prepare
for another day of excitement.
Tuesday, we head to Oscoda on the
eastern shore of Lower Michigan. But first,yes, yes, yes, donuts and coffee in Hale
supplied by Kochers Food Pride. Egad,
are these donuts good so, they must be
bad for your health, right? Is there a one
to one relation between tasting good and
bad for your health? Move on fellas and
gals. We have to get going. We pass up a
chocolate stop at Sherri Candies; looked
really dumpy but we stopped at the Rustic
Relics store which was closed. Okay,
move on to the Dam Store well, you
cant win them all.
Our next stop was a Car Quest store just
outside of Oscoda whose parking lot
became the venue for another car show.
We arrived around 11 AM, settled in, and
enjoyed the usual camaraderie for several
hours. Lunch was served right there in the
parking lot but none of us could face
another hot dog or pulled pork sandwich
so we opted for McDonalds a desperate
move. The tour slowed a bit at this point.
That was okay after a very active three
days. After the show, we checked in to the
Rest All motel and went to dinner at a local
joint. Sob, the tour is ending, for us at least,
tomorrow. All we have to look forward to is,
aha, coffee and donuts at the Depot, an old
train station, in Standish. Oh me, how many
donuts can the human body endure?
Millions, I would say.
The trip from Oscoda to Standish was kinda
nice because we hugged the Lake Huron
shoreline the whole way. But watch what you
are doing when driving in the significant fog
all around. Ah, the Depot looms up in the
distance, housing, yes, donuts ahhhhh.
This stop is the last before trekking home.
After, you know, gorfing and gum flapping,
Bob and Joanne and Jim and Judy, hop on
I75 and home.
We arrive safely at our respective abodes,
tired and happy after a great car tour of
Lower Michigan. Hooray for hot rods!
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Bearing Burners Show at the GM Tech CenterBy Jim Stocke
THE BEARING BURNERS SHOW
GM TECH CENTER, WARREN, MI.
May 5, 2013
The GM Tech Center is located on a one
square mile chunk of land in Warrenbounded by Van Dyke, Mound, Chicago
(13 Mile) and12 Mile. This huge complex
with its dozens of buildings is devoted to
the development of vehicles manufactured
by GM. On this complex, a very cool
annual car show is held early in the crusin
season.
The Bearing Burners, sponsors of the
show, is a car club out of Mt. Clemens.
These Burner guys put on a great show
that is exceptionally well organized. The
show area is long and relatively narrow
covering the parking lots along the east or
Van Dyke side of the Center. The car
count is a relatively modest at 470 but, it
seemed to be substantially bigger than
that number suggests probably because of
the enormous swap meet connected to it.
Wow, I mean there had to have been 300
vendors, maybe even more. You want to
swap, you came to the right place. (Have
you ever seen anyone actually swap at a
swap meet? I didnt think so. Maybe we
could call them stuff meets you know,
where you buy stuff.) Sorry, I digress.
Having the swap and vendors makes an all
day car show much more fun to attend as
these types of shows can get a little boring
without these neat distractions. So, was it
fun? Ah, yes. This was a great way to start
the car event season.
A very notable feature of the grounds is
worth mentioning. In the middle of one of
the parking lots where the show is held,
there a strange looking structure. Sitting on
top of some good sized round pillars was a
large rectangular roof set at a jaunty angle
under which were several car stalls. No
signs or labels were anywhere in sight to
tell what the heck this was. But, with my
fantastic mental acuteness, I deduced that
it was, walla, an electric car charging
station with some of the electricity suppliedby solar panels mounted on the roof. Right
up to the state of the art Id say.
While meandering up and down the car
and swap aisles while ogling all this great
metal, along comes a fellow MSSRer. And
I thought I was all alone, away from the
great companionship of my fellow club
members. And who was this soul?
Why, none other than Bill Ballard who
brought his magnificent 48 Cadillac limo.
Hey Bill, its me, remember? Aha, yes
and great to see you too. Good, now I ca
hang out with someone. Bill was with a
friend (Forgot his name senior moment.
who was driving a beautifully restored 57
Ford retractable. Much later, both Bill andhis friend won a well deserved award.
Ah, but, oh me, the World Famous Stock
Mobile did not win an award. Sob.
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Congratulations to all and
Gods Blessing for many,
many more birthdays and
anniversaries to come
Birthdays
Anniversaries
Swap Meet
CARS FOR SALE
ENGINES FOR SALE
GARAGE EQUIP FOR SALE
PARTS FOR SALE
MISCELLANOUS FOR SALE
49 Ford Club Coupe
Stock Flat Head V8,
Stick Shift, Overdrive,
New Radial Tires, New
Radiator and Wiring,
A Great Driver - $19,000 Vic 248-373-4356
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Jim Laird's 1941 Ford Pickup (Old Blue)
The truck has a stock body with no rust (realsolid straight metal)/Straight axle / Small blockChevy w/ auto trans/NSRA Safety inspectionPriced at $14000 313-506-2439Call Jim's son Rob for details or to view truck.-------------------------------------------------------------1978 T-Bird, Dove Gray with Red Pinstripes,
400 CID, Automatic Trans, Like New, $7500.
See Jack Miller 313-383-4703
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1976 Lincoln 2 dr. 81k actual miles; one
owner $8,000. Original everything. Tim
Keenon is the original owner, 313-563-9235
1936 Pickup Truck, Hot Rod Project Call for
more information and a list of whats included
(too much to mention). Priced to sell,
$5,000.00. Call Jim Sabo, Highland, Mi.,
Newly rebuilt 1975 - 350 c.i. Police Interceptor
engine w/Tri-Power polished alum. intake & 3-
new Rochester carbs. w/progressive linkage
& fuel block. Plus a new Phoenix
transmission & chrome valve covers. Asking
$3,500. Contact Phil Lyon
Nothing Available at this time
46 Ford right and left front fenders, 2 hoods,
dash panel
4-OEM 4 Lug 13 Mag Wheel/Mustang II or
Pinto $100 Firm
4-13 Wire Hub Caps OEM Mustang II/Pinto
$80 Firm
Call Dan Plopan 248-477-6221
Set of 4 18:x8 Boyd Codington 5 Spoke
Wheels with new 60 Series Tires, $1400.
Pete Ballinger 313-534-0331------------------------------------------------------------
Ford OEM 15 inch wheels, Call Russ Demers
313-561-5579
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Baby Moons, 46 Ford Trim
John Schumont 734-377-4522
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Various SUN Tachs, Al Piggott, 248-981-7532
-------------------------------------------------------------
HEI 65K Distributor for Chevy V6, 3.8 or 4.3
New in Box, $60 -Edelbrock Intake 2114
for Chevy 4.3 Vortex Head Motor new with
gaskets $180 -Small block Chevy Water
Pump new, $35 -Ford 351 W Ford Racing
Flywheel, New $200 Rich Pickens
4 grey leather bucket seats, both fronts are
power and they came out of a Windstar LS.
Looking for $200.00 Call for pictures Tim
Messer 248-446-1906
Hot Wheel Collection - 600 cars make offer
Bob Nash 517-223-4882
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Golf Clubs, $100 Call Jack Miller 313-383-
4703------------------------------------------------------------
For Sale License Plate Collection, Pete
Deptula 734-259-0691
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Like new 33/34 Ford Fender Bra $60 Rich
Pickens 734 425 6676
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4-235x45 17 Pirelli Winter Tires $75
96 -98 Mustang Bumper Cover No Tears $20
Call Doug Smith 734-529-5166, Dundee MI
July
Ralph Simons July 9
Lou Paull July 16
Janet Ballard July 20
Rita Laird July 24
Gary Jefferson July 24
Alice Suthers July 27
August
Millie Fackender August 6
Roger Chapman August 7
Barbara Houchins August 7
Laurie Jefferson August 7
Jorayne Wyman August 10
Sandy Socher August 16
James Jelken August 18
Don McKinnon August 19
Joyce Peters August 20
Audrey Lazette August 22
Judy Stocke August 22
Kay Laskey August 23
Tom Zielke August 25
Vic Hollingshead August 26
September
Kurt Kiser September 11
Sandy Kiser September 13
Pete Deptula September 13
Jim Laird September 19
Nina Deptula September 21
Pat Ambroziak September 21Art Socher September 26
July
Jim and Judy Stocke July 8
Daryl and Mary Hart July 10
Don and Ann Prine July 14
Dan and Judy Murray July 31
August
Jim and Rita Laird August 6Art and Sandy Socher August 28
September
Bob and JoAnn Nash September 5
Dan and Kay Laskey September 5
Phil and Ann Reilly September 7
Dennis & Joyce Peters September 11
1946 Ford Coupe,
chopped, S10 Frame,
Full Custom, Satin
Yellow, $32.500.
John Schumont
734 377 4522
5-Signed NASCAR Hats, Mark Martin, Jack
Roush and Mark Martin, Wally Dalenback Jr.
Jeff Burton, Ted Musgrave. $6 each or all 5
for $25. Dwight Fackender
SOLD
Middle of June and HEAVY COATS - WT
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Cruisin and Other RamblingsBy the Editor
In case you missed the March Meeting, it
was announced that we have lost our
current newsletter printer. This loss is
substantial in respect that it was free of
charge to the club. The board has
generously approved that the last tworemaining issue for this year will be paid
for out of the operating fund to ensure that
those who have signed up for direct
mailing to your home continues this year.
Later this year, the Board will review the
situation to see what needs to be done to
continue the newsletter. Thanks for your
patience while we develop a plan for 2014
and beyond.
While we always introduce new members
to the club with an introduction in the
newsletter it has become apparent to me
that not everyone is aware of some of the
senior members and what they have
contributed to the success of MSSR. So
starting with this issue the plan will be todo an article on the longer term members
to make sure the old and new come
together.
There is a cruise night on the schedule to
the Gilmore Museum in August, if you did
not go last year put this one on the
calendar and go early so you can take in
the fantastic collection of cars, one of the
best in the country.
As always check before going, to make
sure us old people did not make a
mistake on the date or time
July
July 4th
, Independence Day in the USA
July 6 & 7, 3rd Ohio Mile, Wilmington OH
July 8th
Burger Autistic School Benefit Show
July 1214, Goodguys Nats Columbus OH
July 13th
, Jackson Road Cruise, Ann Arbor
July 13th
, All American Cruise, Wayne Road
Westland MI
July 19 21, Blue Suede Cruise, Norwalk OH
July 24 MSSR Cruise Night to South Lyon
Lake Street Cruise Night
July 27 Unofficial Telegraph Cruise
July 27 & 28, Dearborn 13 at Chelsea MI
Fairgrounds (New Location)
July 28th
, Second Summer MSSR Meeting a
Jim and Judy Stockes
August
August 1 4, NSRA Nats, Louisville KY
August 7 MSSR Cruise Event to the
Gilmore Museum in Hickory Corners MI
August 15th
, Roush Open House Livonia MI
August 17th
, Woodward Dream Cruise
August 17th
, Back to the Bricks, Flint
August 23rd
, MSSR Cruise Night to Multi
Lakes
August 25th
, Summer Meeting at the Hines
Park Cruise, Westland MI
September
September 2nd
, Labor Day in the USA
September 6-8 Frankenmuth Autofest
September 13-15 NSRA Northern Nats,
Kalamazoo MI
September 20-22, Goodguys at INDY
September 28-29, 4th
Ohio Mile
September 29th
, MSSR Membership
Meeting at Garner Westcott 5PM
October
October 5th
, IDIDIT Open House
You will see some club members at
each of these events having
Fun with Cars, Family and Friends
Coming Events
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President Bob Nash
Vice President Jim Stocke
Treasurer Kurt Kiser
Director Dennis Peters
Director Don McKinnon
Director Rich Pickens
Photographer Jim Stocke
Clothing Mgrs Vic Hollingshead
Jan Quill
Card Lady JoAnn Nash
Web Master Gary Jefferson
Rod Connection
Editor Rich Pickens
Chief Reporter Jim Stocke
Womens World Help Wanted
Art Bill Carner
Historical Help All the old people who canStill remember anything
Others Welcome to Send in Articles and Reports
Send any comments/articles/swap meet
items/events/or general nonsense to the editor
Deadline for next edition August 1, 2013
The opinions and articles expressed in the MSSR Rod
Connection do not necessarily reflect the views and
opinions of the board of directors.
Officers and Staff
Rod Connection
Featured RideMotor State Street Rods
PO Box 2471
Dearborn Michigan 48123
www.motorstatestreetrods.org
Cruising since 1976FUN WITH CARS, FAMILY and FRIENDS
The Motor State Street Rod Car Club was founded in 1976
as a social club to promote safe, family enjoyment of
modified vehicles.
The club is a non-profit benevolent organization
established to promote the enjoyment of older vehicles
and protect the specialized interests of its members.
In addition, the club lives up to its motto of "Fun with Cars,
Family and Friends" with less structured activities that may
include casual cruising, picnics, dances, dinners, swapmeets, car shows, rod runs, cruise-ins, and monthly
meetings. Funds raised every year are donated to various
needy causes.
John Ga asso
41 Dodge Business Coupe
The development of the 1940 Dodge had its roots in the company'shistory. From the time of its absorption into Chrysler, the Dodgelineup began to change and evolve. The hard-drinking DodgeBrothers, John and Horace, who had set out to build a Ford-beaterin 1914, found their logical successors in the hard-driving Chryslerteam: Walter Percy Chrysler, K. T. Keller, and the engineeringtriumvirate of Fred Zeder, Owen Skelton, and Carl Breer.Stories abound of Chrysler's taking over Dodge in July 1928 fromthe New York banking firm of Dillon, Read & Company, which hadbought the Hamtramck, Michigan, carmaker three years earlier.The best one is how Keller had the factory signs changed overnightto read "Chrysler Corporation-Dodge Division."The next morning, Clarence Dillon, representing the sellers,phoned Walter Chrysler to assure him that Dodge was in goodshape, and would "run itself for three months." Chrysler replied,
"Hell, Clarence, our boys moved in yesterday." Still, Dillon musthave been delighted, since W.P. Chrysler had paid him $170million. Though the Dodge Brothers badge didn't disappear until1939, there was little doubt the business belonged to Chrysler from1928 forward -- and that it had been a good buy. Under John andHorace, Dodge would have considered a 100,000-car yearphenomenal. After weathering the Depression, Chrysler was ableto start producing more than 200,000 Dodges a year starting in thelate 1930s. But while Chrysler and DeSoto were occasionallyinnovative with products like the Airflow, Dodge remainedresolutely conservative. This was no less true of the 1940-1948models, which maintained the traditional Dodge virtues of practicaldurability and honest dollar value. There was no question of daringdesigners risking all on a radical styling departure, or madcapracing drivers trouncing the opposition, or a fervent "engineers' car
company" blowing everybody else away with some technicalbreakthrough. What we have here are good, solid cars, probablythe best Dodges built to that time, cars that made Dodge-Plymouthdealers rich beyond their imaginings. In those days, everyChrysler, DeSoto, and Dodge dealer sold Plymouths too, but theDodge-Plymouth stores easily did best because Dodge alwaysoutsold Chrysler and DeSoto. Even now, Dodge is a Chrysler --well, Daimler-Chrysler -- powerhouse, with annual sales volumethat would have been unbelievable in the 1940s. Plymouth,meanwhile, is vanishing after some seven decades, apparently inthe name of progress.
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